Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 44:

In page 38, line 6, to delete “an existing valuation list for that area” and substitute the following:“a valuation list existing for that area (together with so much of the central valuation list, within the meaning of the Valuation Act 2001, as relates to that area)”.

The apportionment of global valuations from the central valuation list provided for under section 53(8) of the Valuation Act 2001 will be made in accordance with section 32(2) of the Bill. The section provides that the apportionment of the central valuation list will be done on the basis of the dissolved authority lists until such time as a new revalued and amalgamated rating authority list is published by the Commissioner of Valuation under section 23 of the Valuation Act 2001.

These amendments are technical in nature and are intended to avoid any difficulties with the definition of an existing valuation list in so far as it is defined in the Valuation Act 2001, and to ensure that it includes any new global valuation placed on the central valuation list that may have come into existence since the commencement of the Valuation Act 2001.